Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
530 W 22nd St
212.929.2262
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Mark Bradford, Ghost Money, Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
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Jan 17, 2008 – Feb 23, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top of one another and then strategically wears them down, producing abstract forms that recall topographical maps with curving on-ramps, freeway arteries, and street grids. At Sikkema Jenkins, Bradford presents a recent series of collages and sculptures with a toned-down, white-and-gray palette. For the massive James Brown Is Dead, he carved the title words into a 20-foot section of billboard. It's an oddly enervating homage to the flashy pop star, maybe better understood as a despairing commentary on the future of African Americans in LA's South Central.
